No Place Like Home; 2009 Yale Womens Soccer Schedule Features 12 Games At Reese Stadium

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - New Haven area fans will have plenty of
opportunities to watch the Yale women's soccer team this fall.
Twelve of the 17 games on the 2009 schedule will be played in the
friendly confines of Reese Stadium.

The season kicks off against Wagner on Sept. 4, the first of
five straight home games. Hofstra (Sept. 6), Sacred Heart (Sept.
10), Northwestern (Sept. 13) and Stony Brook (Sept. 16) complete
the homestand.

The Bulldogs' first road game will be a challenge - at UConn on
Sept. 20. The Huskies edged Yale 2-1 last year after tying the
score in the last second of regulation and then getting the
game-winner early in the second overtime.

After a visit from Quinnipiac on Sept. 22, Yale opens Ivy League
play with a trip to Princeton on Sept. 26. Three of the last four
games between the Bulldogs and Tigers have been decided by one
goal. Harvard, which shared last year's Ivy title with Princeton,
comes to New Haven on Oct. 3. Yale then hosts Central Connecticut
on Oct. 5 and Dartmouth on Oct. 9.

The Bulldogs play Holy Cross for the first time since 2002 in
Worcester on Oct. 14. The Crusaders will be under the direction of
first-year coach Darren Gallagher. Yale looks for its third
straight win over Cornell on Oct. 17 before hosting Marist in the
final non-conference game of the year on Oct. 21. The Bulldogs won
the only previous meeting with the Red Foxes, 7-0 in 2000.

Yale's only back-to-back road games come against Penn (Oct. 24)
and Columbia (Oct. 30). The season then concludes against Brown on
Nov. 7 at Reese Stadium.

The Bulldogs return eight starters from last year's team that
finished 8-7-2 overall and 2-4-1 in Ivy play.